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Pi Presents is a toolkit for producing interactive multimedia applications for museums, visitor centres, and more.

There are a number of Digital Signage solutions for the Raspberry Pi which are generally browser based, limited to slideshows, non-interactive, and driven from a central server enabling the content to be modified frequently.

Pi Presents is different, it is stand alone, multi-media, highly interactive, diverse in it set of control paradigms – slideshow, cursor controlled menu, radio button, and hyperlinked show, and able to interface with users or machines over many types of interface. It is aimed primarily at curated applications in museums, science centres, and visitor centres.

Being so flexible Pi Presents needs to be configured for your application. This is achieved using a simple to use graphical editor and needs no Python programming. There are numerous tutorial examples and a comprehensive manual.

There are two current versions of Pi Presents:

  • Pi Presents ‘KMS’ is the current stable version which requires the legacy RPi OS Bullseye hence it does not work on RPi5.
  • Pi Presents’ GTK’ is in public Beta test. It has an unreliable video player, otherwise it works well. It requires the current RPi OS Bookworm and is the only version that works on RPi5.